Category: CyberWarfare / ExoWarfare

WASHINGTON: The market for weapons that can shoot down small drones, used by the likes of Hezbollah and Daesh, should rise from almost nothing to “several billion dollars” over the next five years. Raytheon is pushing hard to lock in as much of this market as it can, building both High Energy Laser (HEL) and…

“IBM now has more employees in India than the U.S.“ The bigger issue here is to retain in-country senior expertise As it scrambled to compete in the internet world, the once-dominant tech company cut tens of thousands of U.S. workers, hitting its most senior employees hardest and flouting rules against age bias. For nearly a half…

Visualization tools could be the future of electronic warfare The electromagnetic spectrum environment has become increasingly complex in recent years. Electronic warfare and the jamming of radio signals was a large concern reaching back to the Cold War, and a proliferation of emitters, jammers and overall devices in the past few decades has made understanding…

Researchers created an infrared light device that obscures your face from detection software and can even project someone else’s face onto your own. Facial recognition software is becoming more advanced and ubiquitous—I mean, you can unlock your phone with your face now. As this progresses, researchers are trying to make systems more secure by getting…

Ben Ferguson travels to Tel Aviv to find out how Israel is on its way to becoming the world’s top cyber superpower:          

Sam Biddle – March 20 2018 Internet paranoiacs drawn to bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable — while also offering discretion. Governments, with a vested interest in controlling how money…

A whistleblower has revealed to the Observer how Cambridge Analytica – a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to…

Adrian Lamo (February 20, 1981 – March 14, 2018) Adrian Lamo, “the homeless hacker” a.k.a. ‘Protagonist’, ‘Bitter Geek’, ‘AmINotMerciful’, ‘Unperceived’, ‘Mythos’, ‘Arcane’, ‘truefaith’, ‘FugitiveGame’ – who found shelter most evenings in abandoned buildings or on friend’s couches, was a study in contradictions. Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, being one of the founders of PlanetOut.com, and using an…

A roadside bomb (IED) simulator.   The first phase of the Synthetic Training Environment initiative replaces existing simulators for vehicles. The second phase aims to create — in just two years — something the US Army never had before: an “immersive” virtual training environment for troops on foot. By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March…

WASHINGTON — As Sweden seeks to revitalize its “total defense” concept, it will rely heavily on its private technology industry to develop new protections from cyberattacks. The blueprint, which would see the entirety of Sweden activated to repel an invasion, was laid out by Defence Commission head Bjorn von Sydow and commission secretariat chief Tommy…

A soldier holds a PD-100 mini-drone during the PACMAN-I experiment in Hawaii. “To get a quantum increase in the quality of close combat forces, we can do it in the next two years, (and) the cost compared to the rest of the DoD budget is very small,” said retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, who chairs…

In the spring of 2013, over drinks somewhere in Washington, a Marine officer candidate told me about an idea he had. He was getting ready for a wargame — a weekend in the field simulating a combat engagement — and he wanted to use his discretionary budget for the activity to buy a drone. Now,…

Army leaders used the AFCEA Army Signal Conference in Springfield, Virginia this week to emphasize that the service wants to change is the way it buys and equips forces from an IT and communications perspective. The Army recently finished its high profile review of the tactical network in which it charted a “halt, fix, pivot”…

Same name, different meaning: this is not the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI)   It’s an IT contract that isn’t an IT contract — a commercial cloud computing procurement that Department of Defense officials are touting as a means to revolutionize the military’s ability to effectively execute missions and protect the homeland. The Joint Enterprise…

Project Sonar scanner found over 100,000 exposed memcached servers at any given time   Just a week after code repository GitHub was knocked offline by the world’s largest recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the same technique has been used to direct an even bigger attack at an unnamed US service provider. According to DDoS protection…